MS 1537/2/12/18;D Letter, 6 November 1907 [From Indian, Aden at the start of British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 includes verses to her]

MS 1537/2/13/6-11;D Letters (6), written from 31 October 1907 to December 1907 [After leaving England, mentions money, pole ambitions, the crew and lecturing but mainly feelings for his wife and family]

MS 1537/2/34/2;D Letter to, 23 October 1916 [From South America, just before going to New Zealand, refers to reception in South America, people at home, tiredness, Daisy's death, conduct of men on expedition]

MS 1537/2/34/3;D Letter, 10 November 1916 [On eve of departure to New Zealand]

MS 1537/2/39/1;D Letter, February 1917 [Written on way to Dunedin to give a lecture]

MS 1537/2/36/8-11;D Telegrams (4), 12 February 1917 to 16 May 1917

MS 1537/2/36/7;D Letter, 20 February 1917 [Brief note]

MS 1537/2/39/2-10;D Letters (9), August to September 1917, from England, October 1917 to January 1918, from America

MS 1537/2/38/1-8;D Letters (8), October to December 1917 [On eve of departure to America, letters from North and South America]

MS 1537/2/39/11-12;D Telegrams (2), January 1918 [From South America]

MS 1537/2/41/1-18;D Letters (18), January to December 1918 [From Buenos Aires, London, Tromso, North Russia, includes three photographs of Shackleton in South America]

MS 1537/2/39/13;D Letter, December 1918 [Presumably from Inverness]

MS 1581/1/7;D Letter, 23 [unknown] 1918 [From Murmansk] holograph

MS 1537/2/43/1-9;D Letters (9), January to March 1919 [Northern Russia, includes a small bound notebook with Russian vocabulary and a copy of The Pole Star, January 1919, the newspaper for the forces in Northern Russia]

Administrative / Biographical History

The correspondence comprises of letters to Emily Shackleton (nee Dorman) from before their marriage to the time of Sir Ernest's death during the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922 and additional correspondence with the Shackleton and Dorman families

There is also a large amount of correspondence to Ernest's son Edward regarding his father